Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the opportunity proved to be illusory . |
| 2 | If , therefore , the acts relied on are incapable of being made part of any cause of action — e.g . |
| 3 | The bike has to be roadworthy and under 20 years old . |
| 4 | The retailer needs to be able to plan how she uses her money , to work out how much profit she needs to make to stay in business — and to grow . |
| 5 | The writer professed to be church-going , happily married , to have a large house and be infatuated with young children . |
| 6 | They are similar to documentary programmes except that the content is more ephemeral as , by definition , the programmes have to be topical . |
| 7 | Like all of the Marcos affairs , the trial promises to be complex . |
| 8 | In the current debate on corporate responsibility , the board continue to be mindful of the necessity for a high level of competence and integrity . |
| 9 | The matters about which the board have to be satisfied before making a provisional grant are specified in subs . |
| 10 | From ( 8.18 ) above , this requires the futures price to be less than the expecked spot price . |
| 11 | The flicker seems to be dormant , at least for the moment . ’ |
| 12 | Offer We have a complete Cellnet Lifetime package to give away ( all the winner pays for is outgoing calls ) . |
| 13 | Is the fallacy bound to be present whenever anyone says anything at all of the sort ‘ good is … ’ , meaning to offer a definition ? |
| 14 | Most of those whom the investigations showed to be credit-worthy justified the faith put in them and stayed the course . |
| 15 | No assessment was in fact raised on Woolwich in the present case , because the money alleged to be due by way of tax was paid , though under protest . |
| 16 | This principle has been applied , and the money held to be recoverable , in cases where the sanction has amounted to duress of the person of the subject or of his goods . |
| 17 | There was no bubbling of water from inside , and the culvert seemed to be disused and silted up with debris . |
| 18 | The dangers appear to be Readingbased Prince Charming ( 41.90 ) and local open racer Breathless ( 41.99 ) , trained by Gordon Rooks . |
| 19 | In America of course the privilege runs to being able to shoot on sight . |
| 20 | At the initial design stage , and during the implementation of the program , the programmer needs to be aware of and act upon a number of factors . |
| 21 | The programmer has to be aware right from the initial design stage of the implications of the program design in terms of memory and speed requirements , and must be aware of techniques for optimizing any combination of these factors that is required . |
| 22 | It was amazing how his underwear and the case seemed to be involved in a kind of dance , in which the arrival home of his shirts might depend on who was found guilty of what . |
| 23 | Not only does the text tend to be repetitious but each item of gear if prefaced by an otherwise blank page informing us of the Key Point to be gleaned in that section , pearls of wisdom such as : ‘ A file is useful for sharpening the edges of your … hooks . |
| 24 | The text has to be short , not more than two thousand words . |
| 25 | However once the courts began to be willing to reassess the constituent elements of jurisdiction , under the collateral fact doctrine , then it was natural also to require some proof that the condition was indeed fulfilled on the facts of the particular case . |
| 26 | Because expression may exist at various levels of abstraction ( for example , in the program 's structure ) the courts have to be able to distinguish between idea and expression . |
| 27 | But the production of such crops in the field appears to be some years away . |
| 28 | The teaching had to be simple and as there was no appropriate textbook , summary notes had to be dictated . |
| 29 | So far , we have seen that while physics was viewed by students as exciting and forward-looking , in practice the teaching tended to be conventional and hierarchical , very much like school , with students being given a body of information to absorb . |
| 30 | In this case the misgivings appear to be unfounded , but it does highlight the need for adequate controls on such experiments , both from a national and international perspective , since it is always possible that genetic engineering firms , which are now proliferating in the USA , Japan and northwest Europe , will turn to those , usually developing countries , where regulations are not as strict as those of , for example , the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in the USA . |